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4 March 2025
Are you directly involved in preserving and sharing history and heritage within South Holland District? Perhaps you run a history group, or a Facebook Page or G…
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4 March 2025
The Gosberton Heritage Project 2025, a joint venture between Gosberton and District Local History Society, Gosberton Parochial Church Council, and South Holland…
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26 October 2024
Advert from the early 1900's for Herbert Harmstone, complete house furnisher, of the Sheep Market, Spalding.…
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26 October 2024
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26 October 2024
RURAL LIFE A midday break for a group of Tulip pickers. Photo taken near Spalding in June 1941 …
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26 October 2024
NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH! Hutchessons were well known saddlers in the Gosberton area, right from Victorian times until the middle of the 20th century. They plied t…
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26 October 2024
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26 October 2024
Men working to position piles on the bank of a small channel during the construction of a bridge at RAF Holbeach in 1931 …
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26 October 2024
THE CLOUGH METHODIST CHAPELS IN 1935 Before 1935, there were two Methodist Chapels in Clough (wow! thats incredible for such a small community). One was Wesleya…
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26 October 2024
Nan & Grandad , Olive & Bill ran The Plough Inn . Pictured Left to Right are my dad Bill , younger  brother Les (Danny Ford to some) and far right Des. …
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26 October 2024
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26 October 2024
A group photo taken outside the old Wesleyan Chapel in Knight Street, Pinchbeck. Exact year unknown. From research I have found the following information.- The…
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26 October 2024
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26 October 2024
Located in Spalding, Lincolnshire The Savoy Cinema opened on 10th June, 1937 with Irene Dunne in “Theodora Goes Wild”. The seating capacity was 1,500, with 1,0…
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24 September 2024
Thought to be locally made sometime between the late 17th and early 18th century. Donations made were distributed between the poor and needy of the parish. Duri…
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23 September 2024
The Lady Chapel in the south aisle is now dedicated as a prayer corner. The evidence of fixing points show it was screened off from the rest of the Nave and use…
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23 September 2024
Placed in All Saints in 1719, it is allegedly based on a font in St James Piccadilly carved by Grinding Gibbons. Adam and Eve are represented either side of the…
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3 May 2024
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